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do you ever think abt how aphmau's crew was absolutely fucking stacked. nevermind the fact multiple of them are relic holders, she had 3 men on the Jo9 list (garroth, laurance, dante), a shadow knight (laurance), a demon?? (travis), an actual juror (katelyn), two witches (KC and lucinda), probably more i'm misremembering but like BROOOO. the power of picking up strays with genuine care and connection is unmatched.
do you guys remember when gene thumped aphmau in the back of the head so hard she thought she got hit with a bag of coal. bc honestly i would have loved to see that scene recreated
hold on do u understand how garroth having an affair with matilda adds like a whole nother layer to everything about him and shadowknights. the young boy he mentored for years burns his village to the ground. the young boy he loved like a son kills his lover. the young boy he thought he knew turns out to be some sort of terrific, human-faced shapeshifter from the darkest place known to man. THEN!!! THEN!!! IMAGINE ANOTHER SHADOWKNIGHT FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE WOMAN YOU'RE ALSO IN LOVE WITH. YOUR BROTHERS FINALLY COME BACK BUT AT THE COST OF THEIR HUMANITY. idk man im passionate
yk what. i think levin being a descendant of irene is such a slept on plot point. like. we had shadow knights trying to sacrifice CADENZA but not LEVIN?? come on bro. the DRAMA. the implied possessive abilities of shadow knights (or laurance, at least) to make a baby walk 15-20ft away?? sorry i'm reminiscing
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in a sick, sad way, shad sees most of the shadow knights as his children.
shadow knights don't necessarily have to kill someone for immortality, but they do have to consume the flesh of someone living.
it doesn't ACTUALLY matter who they target; shad (and gene) just frame it as having to kill your lord or an individual you hold in high regards because 1) getting rid of lords helps in the long run, and 2) shadow knights with attachments to anything other than shad are harder to control. so convincing baby knights to get rid of those obstacles early on saves shad a lot of trouble.
as for how our shadow knight cast handled the munchies...
gene ate his lord as well as the upper-ranks sent with him (which is part of why he ranked up so quickly).
zenix ate his lord in the midst of the fire staged to kill him and his family.
vincent ate his lord/brother but he's still in denial over it (he acknowledges that he's immortal and that this immortality comes from his brother, but in his head, his brother was sick and begging for mercy; in reality, vincent flew into rage after finding out how far his brother had fallen and brutally murdered him).
amethyst attacked her father. he survived and amethyst experienced her first false death; this sparks an influx of rumors and stories about shadow knights (previously, shadow knights were extremely low-key, and only existed as folktales).
vylad attacked zianna. she survived.
sasha attacked castor's brother; castor managed to scare her off, but his brother passed away from the injuries. this is what leads to castor going "mad" and essentially being outcasted :( he was grieving and in denial and couldn't bear to tell laurance, who was grieving both sasha and joh at the time.
glenda was NOT immortal, she was planning to sacrifice cadenza + eat from her while she was still alive but aphmau kicked her ass and then laurance killed her.
and laurance, of course, hasn't attacked anyone, but he does struggle with severe intrusive thoughts and it is very, VERY hard for him not to bite while in his knight form.
shadow knight armor is attached to the skin like a shell. yes, they get parasites. yes, it hurts to have it removed or tugged on the wrong way. yes, it grows out of their skin and yes, that also hurts (only for the baby knights tho).
baby knights (and sometimes even immortal shadow knights) are known known to curl up into the fetal position and shift into their shadow knight form when they're scared. it's a defense tactic that protects their heart, especially since shadow knight armor is so hot/sharp (even to other knights). people unofficially refer to this as "armadillo-ing".
SHADOW KNIGHTS ARE NOT IMMUNE TO LAVA. that shit WILL disintegrate them. HOWEVER, since shadow knights getting perma-deathed by lava in the nether would be really bad design, this just rebirths the knight. the only exception to this is sasha and potentially one other character. some knights have come to see it as a religious thing, like a baptism.
shadow knight hair often turns into flames when they're upset, and if they're really angry, their entire body gets lit. very destructive.
shadow knights can be temporarily paralyzed by brain trauma (usually stabbing something through their head; they'll be mobile again once the object is removed or the injury closes up) and weakened by being doused in water or left in the cold.
baby knights can be killed via holy magic, decapitation, mincing the body, water, the cold, or old age (they actually age much faster in the overworld, but slower in the nether). they can go months without food, water, or sleep before it starts to take a toll on them.
immortal shadow knights cannot truly be killed unless their heart is devoured (more on this on the next point). mostly, their bodies are permanently destroyed and they become a shadow soul. immortal shadow knights do not need food, water, or sleep but will sometimes indulge if they're feeling... nostalgic. or particularly empty.
shadow knights can only absorb power from each other by eating the heart. this is 1) difficult because you have to LITERALLY tear the shadow knight apart to get to their heart, and 2) terrifying even to shadow knights. it's called "the final death". this is why zenix becomes so infamous.
"false deaths" are only experienced by baby knights. baby knights don't ACTUALLY die to most mortal deaths, but because they're not immortal, their body still thinks it needs to take care of itself like usual and tricks the brain into thinking they're dying when they're not (it's similar if they're stabbed or something; the body goes "YOU ARE BLEEDING OUT" and assumes the result is death). when this happens, they go dormant from anywhere between a few minutes to a few days. when they wake, they'll be perfectly fine. no scars, no nothing.
inspired by @/chvsire and some other users i can't find (thanks tumblr)βshadow knights occasionally have traits resembling real-world predators or nether mobs. whether this has a rank/role purpose or just happens, i've not decided lmao.
shadow knights may also be based off biomes. bc pretty.
some ideas for predators that i have are: bird of prey (shad), feline (gene), dog or wasp (laurance), shark or alligator (zenix), snake (sasha)... and then i got nothing LMAO.
immortal shadow knights don't really... reincarnate? they have to be magically assisted in order to cross over the purgatory, where their memories will be locked away and they'll be sent to live again. it's kinda like what death does for sam winchester in supernaturalβif they were to push too hard, the memories and power would be fully accessible. this is different for other souls, who face judgement and then are either permitted or forbidden from reincarnating. if they ARE reincarnated, their memories are completely removed. or something. i'll figure it out.
